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Welcome to Women in Red (WiR), a WikiProject whose objective is to turn "redlinks" into blue ones within the project scope: women's biographies and works by women. Click on our Redlinks index to see all our lists by focus area, occupation and nationality.

We recognized a need for this work as, in November 2014, only about 15% of the English Wikipedia's biographies were about women. Founded in July 2015, WiR strives to improve the figure, which has reached 17.73% as of 17 November 2018. But that means, according to WHGI, only 277,582 of our 1,565,894 biographies are about women. Not impressed? "Content gender gap" is a form of systemic bias, and WiR addresses it in a positive way through shared values.

If you participate in WiR, you can join up officially using the box in the top right-hand corner of this page. You are also welcome to add our userbox template {{User WikiProject Women in Red}} to your user page, to produce:

In connection with Ada Lovelace Day on Tuesday, 9 October, the University of Edinburgh is arranging an event including an editathon on women in science, technology, engineering and maths. It is being coordinated by Wikipedian in Residence Ewan McAndrew.--Ipigott (talk) 17:14, 22 September 2018 (UTC)

From 18 to 21 October, with the support of Wellcome Collection, Alice White (user name Zeromonk) is arranging a series of editathons at the Medicine Now gallery in London. More details here.--Ipigott (talk) 16:19, 22 September 2018 (UTC)

WiR works by filling in missing articles based on extensive lists of needed topics. The index to our wide range of topics and nationalities can be found at the Redlist index. Please make these red links blue. Notable women without a wikipedia biography can be added to any crowd-sourced redlists they match; and added to wikidata such that they're included in wikidata-derived redlists.

Thanks to Ronhjones, we now have a bot showing declined drafts submitted to AfC. Weekly updates highlight those most recently listed under New Additions. With a little bit of attention, some of them could well be moved to mainspace, encouraging the editors who created them to progress on Wikipedia.--Ipigott (talk) 11:33, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

WiR maintains resources to help you contribute, including lists of topical books and external links, information on editing in general, and contacts you can reach out to for specific needs. They can be found at Resources.

Academic research on Wikipedia's content gender gap is also documented at Research.

The evolving list for this month (see Archives box) is created by the bot which lists new women's biographies on the basis of their female gender on Wikidata. At present, the bot does not list women's works, associations or related articles but you are encouraged to add these to the list manually. A WiR Wikidata page provides information on how you can help ensure WiR metrics are up-to-date.

The graph shows the number of articles created each month. The apparent decrease for the current month reflects the number of articles created up to today's date. Only data on completed months indicate overall progress.

... that in 2018, storyboard artist Domee Shi became the first woman to direct a Pixar short film? (2018-10-30)

... that Israeli songwriter Rachel Shapira's first hit song was set to music without her knowledge? (2018-10-27)

... that Jean Yancey was known in Denver as "the mother of all businesswomen", having helped more than 1,000 women launch their own startups? (2018-10-25)

... that in 2017, Sofía Gómez broke the CMAS Constant Weight Bi-Fins freediving world record, and then broke her own record two days later? (2018-10-22)

... that during World War II, Huang Qingyun published the only Chinese children's magazine in Hong Kong and China, and corresponded with her readers to help them cope with life in wartime? (2018-10-22)